Shirt cuff fastening device



Dec. 26, 1950 J. 5-. KANAREK 2,535,139

SHIRT CUFF FASTENING DEVICE Filed Oct. 28, 1948 INVENTOR.

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Patented Dec. 26, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC 1 Claim.

This invention relates to shirt cuff fastenin devices. It has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of the character hereinafter described which will be highly efiicient in use and economical in manufacture.

An important object of this invention is the provision of a fastening device of the character hereinafter described which will permit the conversion of a shirt cuff having its end portions disposed in overlapping position, to what is known as a French cuff, that is, a cuff having its ends arranged in confronting relation with respect to each other.

Another and equally important object of this invention is the accomplishment of the above stated object by a fastening device which is orna mental in character.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view of a converted shirt cuff showing my improved fastening device associated therewith;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional detail view of the same taken substantially on line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the cuff taken substan tially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary View of the opposite side of the cuff shown in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, in indicates the sleeve of a shirt and I I the cuff This cuff is the usual soft cuff now commonly in use and is provided with a button hole I2 and button I3.

Ordinarily, it is the practice when the ends 14 of the cuff II are secured together by means of the button I3 projected through the button hole I2, to dispose the end portions I of the cuff in overlapping position with respect to each other.

As before stated, an object of this invention is to provide a fastening device which will permit the conversion of such a cuff to what is known as a French cuff with the portions I4 of the cuff disposed in parallel confronting relation with respect to each other. To accomplish this, I provide a fastening device which comprises clamping arms I5 and I6. These clamping arms are pivotally connected together by means of a pin I'I projected through laterally extending lugs I8 formed on the arms. The clamping arms I5 and I6 are yieldably held in clamping relation with respect to each other by means of an overthrow spring I9 having one end connected as at 20 to the clamping arm I5 and the opposite end connected as at 2i to a lug 22 provided by the clamping arm IS.

The clamping arm I5 provides a recessed portion 23 of a depth and diameter sufficient to ac commodate the button I3 which is secured to the adjacent cuff portion I l by the usual thread.

The clamping arm I6 at one side thereof provides a shank 24 terminating into an enlarged head 25 of a diameter which permits the head 25 to be inserted through the button hole I2.

Formed as an integral part thereof or secured to the arm It is a suitable ornament 26. This ornament may be of any desired design and shape. It may be formed as an integral part of the arm I6 or attached thereto by suitable attaching means.

When the fastening device is applied to the shirt cuff II, it is positioned with respect to the shirt cuff as shown in Fig. 1. In this position, the head 25 is projected through the button hole I2. The portions Id of the cuff II are arranged in confronting position with respect to each other. The recessed portion 23 of the clamping arm I5 embraces the button I3 secured by thread to the shirt cuff I I. In this position the fastening device is held upon the shirt cuff by the head portion 25 and by the button IS, the latter disposed within the recessed portion 23.

Other means may be provided for connectin the clamping arms i5 and It together.

By the use of a fastening device such as shown in the drawing and as described herein, the shirt cuff may be Worn with the portions I4 thereof in confronting relation with respect to each other, thus presenting what is known as a French cuff.

My improved fastening device may be applied to the cuff without altering the same. As before stated, the fastening device is held in place by utilizing the attached shirt button I3 and the preformed button hole I2. This fastening device may be constructed at an economical cost.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. 1, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

A fastening device for shirt cuffs including a pair of relatively fiat parallelly extending clamping arms having corresponding end portions at one end thereof hingedly connected together and between which confronting edge portions of a shirt cuff are adapted to be clamped, means providing said hinged connection, one of said clamping arms having in its surface confronting the surface of the other arm a recess adapted to receive and cover a button preattached to the shirt cuff, a shank carried by the other of saidarms and extending laterally from the surface of said arm confronting the surface of said one arm and adapted to be projected through a preformed button hole formed in the shirt cuff for said button and having an enlarged head thereon to provide a connection between said cuff and said clamping arms when said button is not projected JOSEPH S. KANAREK.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 405,876 Corning June 25, 1889 462,143 Lamboley Oct. 27, 1891 469,237 Fontan Feb. 23, 1892 1,677,849 Roberts July 17, 1928 1,979,375 Fielding Nov. 6, 1934 2,377,688 Hubbell June 5, 1945 

